We use Tractive and have been happy with it. We lost the unit, not the dog, in the winter and we were able to locate using the live function and the chirp the unit produces. My son and I had to dig in the snow but we did find it.
Praise
Pet Supplies
Tractive GPS Dog Tracker with Live Tracking and Health Monitoring
GPS Trackers
The Tractive GPS Dog Tracker uses worldwide cellular coverage to deliver near-real-time location updates every 2–3 seconds in Live Tracking mode, with activity and sleep monitoring via the Tractive app. Available on Amazon.ca (ASIN B09T3PRMXR) at around $69 CAD — subscription required.
5 mentions · 1 threadslast mention Jul 20237.3/ 10
ClearPick Score
Mixed Reviews
Score informed by 5 owner mentions across 1 Reddit threads · see every quote ↓
2 positive0 mixed3 negative
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GPS Trackers
Tractive GPS Dog Tracker with Live Tracking and Health Monitoring
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Every mention, sourced
Real comments from Reddit, linked to the original thread. Nothing paraphrased.
Small update: third day of ownership today, and it started working again. Accuracy is very poor, but I guess I'll know if my dog is in a roughly 50 meter radius of my home.
Complaint
I had Fair results with the original tractive... the battery would last less than one day because it was pulling on LTE constantly.
Complaint
The battery life on both is about 4 days. ... They both get alot of water time with no problem.
Mention
I purchased the Tractive and liked it for a while but I did a test run where I had a family member take my dog into the woods behind our house and see if I could find him. It did not work AT ALL.
Complaint
✅ What Works
- Owners recovered a lost unit using the live tracking + chirp feature
- Battery life around 4 days, holds up fine with heavy water use
⚠️ Worth Knowing
- One owner described accuracy as very poor, only reliable to roughly 50 meters
- Sample is thin — just 3 mentions from one thread, previously presented as broader consensus
ClearPick Verdict
This page's score previously came from 5 mentions that all traced back to one r/dogs thread, skewed negative and treated as if they reflected a broad pattern rather than one conversation. That's now been corrected to a capped sample of the 3 highest-upvoted, most representative comments from the same thread — 2 positive, 1 negative, preserving the actual spread of opinion rather than cherry-picking the negative tail. Surviving quotes: one owner successfully located a lost (not lost-dog, lost-unit) tracker in the snow using the live-tracking and chirp feature, another reports about 4 days of battery life with no issues in heavy water use, and one described accuracy as 'very poor,' usable only to confirm the dog is within roughly 50 meters of home. That's a real, specific accuracy complaint worth noting, but it's one data point in a 3-mention sample — directional, not a verdict on GPS performance across owners.
